kill equivalent to the averment that it was done with a premeditated design to effect the death, and will support a conviction. 2. In cases of conviction of murder, this court will disregard technical defects in the record and will afford the prisoner every right consistent with a due regard for the reasonable rules of practice and procedure, but the court cannot review alleged errors based upon a record which is neither a case made or transcript. R. A WRIGHT VS. UNITED STATES. (Supreme Court of Oklahoma. No. 1768. Filed June, 14th. 1907. Appeal from District Court of Caddo County. Frank E. Gillette, Trial Judge. Murder-Indictment for-When Sufficient.Where the charging part of an indictment for murder is in one sentence and the word "feloniously" used in relation to the assault is so connected with the subsequent portions of the sentence to modify them by a fair and reasonable interpretation, it is not necessary to repeat the word feloniously" in connection with each act necessary to constitute the crime; but if the pleader uses words to describe the intent with which the mortal wound was inflicted, other than those used to charge the intent with which the assault was made, the words "then and there" used in connecting the infliction of the mortal wound with the felonious assault will be interpreted to refer to time and place merely, and not as a vehicle to carry the intent with which the assault was made through the indictment so as to modify the intent in making the mortal wound. (Syllabus by the Court.) Whitaker & Whitaker and Glitche, Morgan & Gliche, for appellant. Horace Speed, for the United States. EDITORIALS. In this June number of The Oklahoma Law Journal the opinions published in full are not yet to be found in any other publication. The five new cases in which opinions were rendered on the 12, 13, and 14th instant will appear in full in our next issue. However, we have printed the syllabi of said five cases in this number. The Ohio State Bar Association will meet at Put-inBay on the 8th of July 1907. The first woman elected a Justice of the Peace in the United States was Mrs Cathrine W. McCulloch of Evanston, Ill., on last April. The Supreme Court of Oklahoma will reconvene on the 25th of June instant, and render its opinion on the injunction Cases growing out of the action of the Constitutional Convention. THE HAGUE INTERNATIONAL PEACE CONFERENCE. On Saturday. June 15th 1907, in the ancient capital of South Holland, will be opened one of the greatest conventions, at least in purpose, that was ever called to order on the face of the earth; the Hague International Peace Conference. It is, however, the second meeting of its kind, the first having been called in 1899. This gigantic gathering will be the realization of the influence brought to bear upon the civilized nations of the world by the members of the first and the interest aroused by the advocates of the world's peace. Forty-six nations will send delegates and partake in the proceedings of the Conference. The members of this Conference that will participate in the descussion of the issues that will come before it are the most renowned International Law writers and statesmen of the world. The chief of the United States delegation are Hon. Joseph H.Choate and Gen. Horace Porter. England among others sends Sir Edward Fry, Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals, and Sir Henry Howard. France Baron d' Estournelles and M. Leon Bourgeois, and others celebrated in international law and literature. Germany is to be represented by a great number of renowned scholars and University Professors. In fact each of the 46 nations is sending to this great conference the best talent it posseses in the way of representative men. Aside from the purposes of the meeting and the interest naturally inspired by the contemplation of so vast amount of intellectuality gathered in one assembly, the place of meeting lends enchantment to the imagination. The Hague is the ancient city and capital of the Netherlands. It is the city of palaces, libraries and art galleries-the home of Rubens and a host of other distinguished painters. The Great Church, founded in 1308, with its lofty hexagonal tower with 38 bell, and scores of other objects of unending historical interest. The Conference is to be held in the most capacious of the royal buildings-buildings that have been the arena or royal display, ancient and modern. No happier selection could have been made as to place for holding the Conference, or to become the seat of the Worlds Court of Arbitration than the capital of the grand old Dutch Republic-the old refuge home of the oppressed the forerunner of free thought and civil liberty. |